It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to... The feeling for the things themselves, for reality, is more important than the feeling for pictures.

  • -- Vincent van Gogh 文森特·梵高

人们应该倾听的不是画家的语言,而是自然的语言。对事物本身的感觉,对现实的感觉,比对图片的感觉更重要。

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If with open mind one reads and observes industriously and long; if in so doing one covers a wide field and so covering reflects in terms of realism, he is likely, soon or late, to be brought to a sudden consciousness that Man is an unknown quantity and his existence unsuspected.

如果一个人以开放的心态,勤奋而长久地阅读和观察;如果一个人这样做涵盖了一个广阔的领域,而这样的涵盖反映了现实主义,那么他可能很快或迟些时候会突然意识到,人是一个未知数,他的存在是不被怀疑的。

When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.

当我评判艺术时,我把我的画放在上帝创造的物体旁边,比如树或花。如果冲突,那就不是艺术。

Nature engenders the science of painting.

自然产生了绘画科学。